Managed to nab an example of the 1950's version of the
Dixon's Typhonite ElDorado 175 pencils on
Ebay: a golden pencil box in good condition still holding nine unsharpened
H pencils. Though I must admit that I far prefer the matchbox-style cardboard boxes depicting Inca natives and Spaniard conquerors on the cover slip used on the preceding decades. Still it is nice to have the final packaging tin version of this extinct pencil line in the collection.
Full picture coverage in my
Flickr photostream:
photo 1 to
photo 9. The sturdy packaging tin with attractive advertising graphics hint to the higher value placed upon these fine drawing tools that were proudly made in the
USA in the past century.
Despite being over half a century old, one of the
H pencils worked just fine after a quick sharpening. Fine addition to a vintage pencil collection.
Managed to nab an example of the 1950's version of the Dixon's Typhonite ElDorado 175 pencils on Ebay: a golden pencil box in good condition still holding nine unsharpened H pencils. Though I must admit that I far prefer the matchbox-style cardboard boxes depicting Inca natives and Spaniard conquerors on the cover slip used on the preceding decades. Still it is nice to have the final packaging tin version of this extinct pencil line in the collection.
Full picture coverage in my Flickr photostream: photo 1 to photo 9. The sturdy packaging tin with attractive advertising graphics hint to the higher value placed upon these fine drawing tools that were proudly made in the USA in the past century.
Despite being over half a century old, one of the H pencils worked just fine after a quick sharpening. Fine addition to a vintage pencil collection.
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